Research cruise with RV Maria S. Merian

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As part of the EU project ECOTIP, an expedition will be undertaken, starting in Reykjavik on August 6, 2022, and heading to the east coast of Greenland, sampling both the deep sea and the fjords of Kangerlussuaq, Bessel Fjord and Dove Bay. It will end in Reykjavik on August 29, 2022. More than 20 scientists from the ECOTIP project, including from the University of Vienna, University of Tromsø, DTU Aqua, Abo Akademi, IOPAN, University of Copenhagen and Aarhus University, will be on board the RV Maria S. Merian. The expedition will be led by Prof. Dr. Helmuth Thomas, director of the Institute for Carbon Cycles at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon.

ECOTIP – Ecological tipping cascades in the Arctic Seas – is a research project focused on understanding and predicting changes in Arctic marine biodiversity and the impacts on two vital marine ecosystem services: fisheries production, which is the economic foundation of many Arctic communities, and carbon sequestration, which has important feedbacks on global climate.

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Thus, this research cruise will cover a range of scientific disciplines and experiments, including trace metal and isotope sampling, marine geochemistry, microplastics, microbial community dynamics, zoobenthos, plankton, paleoceanography, and more.

 

 

For more information, please have a look at the Hereon News, and the ECOTIP website with associated blog:

==> Triggers for ecosystem change
==> ECOTIP Website
==> The Merian Cruise
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